The Old New Thing

March 2012 - Page 3 of 3 - The Old New Thing

Why does Explorer ignore seconds when sorting by Date Modified?

March 6, 2012 Mar 6, 2012 03/6/12
Raymond Chen
A customer reported that Explorer appears to be ignoring the seconds when sorting by Date Modified. The customer was kind enough to include detailed steps to reproduce the problem. Start with a folder with several files, sorted by Date Modified. Right-click on the newest file, select Copy. Right-click on the blank column on the right, ...

Why doesn't the Maximize button maximize across all monitors?

March 5, 2012 Mar 5, 2012 03/5/12
Raymond Chen
Cheong wonders why there isn't a way for the Maximize button to maximize a window across multiple monitors. (Troll asks a similar question: Why doesn't Windows support spanned mode for multiple monitors?) We tried it that way at first. And we quickly discovered why it was a bad idea. Wait, I'm not finished yet. Things get still worse if ...

This isn't Highlights magazine: Sort keys and why they change

March 2, 2012 Mar 2, 2012 03/2/12
Raymond Chen
Some time ago, Ry Jones gave some examples of Quotable Raymond, including the following: How to make a good doc bug report: 1. Don't embed pictures. ... This isn't Highlights magazine. What Ry didn't realize is that his "..." totally misrepresented the message. There were actually two separate items, but he combined them into one ...